Remembering War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM
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Journalist Marie Colvin, of Britain's Sunday Times, was killed in Syria Wednesday — along with French photographer Remi Ochlik. NPR's Neal Conan remembers the foreign journalist who joined Talk of the Nation several times, reporting from Gaza and Libya.



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